Kant's Utilitarian Ethics

“Radix malorum est cupiditas” translated from Latin into “Greed is the root of all evil.” (Chaucer 125) Throughout the Pardoner’s Tale, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, this is the story of three men that treat people lower than them and they end up finding a whole pile of gold, but they end up killing each other to get the gold to themselves. The entirety of the three men end up dead and not even one gets the gold. There are many topics involving greed, this essay will involve what it is about, the dangers, and the benefits of controlling the desire to gain.

When someone thinks of the Holocaust, they think of destitute people, hunger, and a plethora of bone-thin children. Mr. Van Daan is a monster to take even more food away from these children. The Diary of Anne Frank is written by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and is about the time that Anne and the others spent in the annex. It shows the difficulties and problems created when many people live in a small place with small amounts of food. One of the inhabitants of the annex is Mr. Van Daan, who has a son named Peter, and a wife too. Mr. Van Daan should be grateful to the Franks for taking him in, but he is not; instead he repeatedly puts himself before everyone else.

Greed for money and material things is one of the deadly sins. Chaucer frequently points this in the Pardoner’s Tale. Chaucer is use his lust for money to describe the kind of materialism.

At an early age, we learn how to use every trait we have in us. It takes us longer to process and learn the true meaning of some of these innate traits, for example, feeling compassion towards others under certain situations. On the other hand, compassion can be taught to those who may be afraid to show sympathy. Many people believe that compassion is a trait which we learn over the years, with experience. However, others feel that it's more of a connection we have among us no matter the age, or the ethnicity. Barbara Ascher’s idea that compassion must be learned it’s problematic because compassion a mixture of both innate sympathy and learning how to feel concern for others. Affection is a way to demonstrate compassion, but some people may

Churchgoer: So many people have poor character. The world would be a better place if everyone had good character.

What would you do if you had no money, no food and no home? How would you survive? How world you or your family help each other to survive? To answer these you must see into longs eyes and read her story of survival and stealing. This story is about longs and stealing for survival. The Ung family stealing from many different people and stores and even farms. This was happening because the Ung family doesn't have a lot of money to buy food and they need it to survive. This was happening in the 1970s. How this is happening because the mother has no money in pa is dead. The only for them to survive is for the Ung family to keep fighting. The author demonstrates how the Khmer Rouge uses the techniques of making the people starve in order to steal food for their family. Stealing can make a big in back

A little boy named Jake is coloring in his class. Jake has five crayons because he ran the fastest to the boxes, but the little boy sitting next to him has no crayons because he was too slow to get any. The teacher has run out of crayons, so she asks Jake to share two of his crayons with the boy sitting next to him, so that he could color too. Jake doesn't want to share, because he wants all the colors for himself. The teacher has to intervene and explain to Jake why sharing is good, and take two of his crayons and give them to the boy next to him. This scenario is relatable to the story of Robin Hood, a man who takes from the advantaged, and gives to the disadvantaged. Some would argue that what Robin Hood does is bad, and some would argue that it is good. This leaves a pondering question, is Robin Hood a good person doing bad things, or a bad person doing good things.

. How do Virtue Theory, Deontological Theory, and Utilitarian Theory differ? How should a US Army officer apply them in making ethical decisions? Explain.

I chose Aesop Fables. I chose this because I read his work as a youngster. Aesop was born in Greece and had been a slave. During his slavery, Aesop enjoyed observing the behaviors of humans and animals. This is what gave him ideas for his stories that gave the animals human-like characteristics such as speech and emotions, but the animal characters would still carry out their qualities and natural tendencies. In his fables, Aesop would talk about certain people or animals doing something. In his fables, each story carries morals and lessons to be learned. I will only talk about three stories that I believe carries important lessons in life. The stories I chose are “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg”, “The Tortoise and the Hare”, and “The Peacocks Complaint.”

All over the world there are people starving and dying because poverty is keeping their basic needs just out of reach. Conversely, the world is filled with people who have the money and the means to help end poverty; however, too many of these people are not philanthropists. For those of us who would like to help poverty but are not as able as the wealthy, it can be frustrating to witness this type of greed. When rich people ignore their own moral obligations to charity, it may fall upon people with a “Robin Hood” mentality to redistribute a portion of their wealth. If stealing is the only practical way to help starving, homeless children, can it really be considered immoral? To better explain this issue, I have designed my own pond-type thought experiment.

Utilitarianism as an economic thought traced its principles and history to ethical philosophy. It is used in welfare economics in providing basis in policy making. Utilitarianism in general (or the present known meaning) is viewed as the morally right action is the action that produces the most good. It is best known for its view as “the greatest good for the greatest number”.

In according to the article there are many arguments about the gun control in the United States, it means that it based utilitarian thought. Steve Sanetti, he is the founder of the National Shooting Sport Foundations he has a utilitarian thought. As explain the article this founder is grounded in the concept to contribution to overall happiness. It means that the morality is based in the greatest act that should be done if the individuals are considered those action are good for them. As explain the article that some of them concepts under of the modern utilitarianism state that people are free to do as the individuals please unless that those actions produces a negative effect other persons

Utilitarianism (U) is characterised by carrying out an action to produce the greatest amount of good (or “utility”) for the greatest number of people, regardless of whether or not the action is right or wrong. The word “good” is defined as a sense of satisfaction, gain or welfare – according to the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. Alternatively, the theory focuses on reducing the total amount of harm imposed on the greatest number of people. Viewing this theory from either perspective will generate an overall positive outcome. For an argument to be purely Utilitarian, the following three requisites must be met – the consequences of the act should have an overall positive value (which in turn determines the ethics of the act); this value of the consequences is then assessed by the amount of overall utility produced and essentially there needs to be “impartiality - where each person’s happiness must equate another’s happiness.

As one of Plato’s most famous concepts, the tripartite nature of the soul recognizes the three different functions which corresponds to a specific power of the human soul. These three functions are as follows: awareness of the goal (reason), drive towards an action (spirit), and desire for bodily things (appetite). The reason holds supremacy or power over both spirit, and desire – where its main relationship between the latter two functions is dictated by the purpose of reason, which is to seek and attain a specific goal. However, the goal being pertained here is more than just the desire to attain fantastical and short-termed things set to trick us into believing

For most people, when reading a book that has to do with someone murdering two old women in cold blood, the thought of that character being the protagonist is certainly not what comes to mind. However, that is not the case when Rodion Raskolnikov is the subject of discussion. That may have to do with the complexity and split of character of Raskolnikov; for even his name “Raskol” is translated into “schism”. Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores his main character’s dual personality in several ways throughout the novel, making it an integral part, emphasizing on how Dostoyevsky managed to create a protagonist in which most readers sympathize with, whereas in almost all other novels, that particular character would be considered an antagonist, and